Rejected Quotes

486 Rejected quotes by 422 unique authors

If I get rejected for a part, I pick myself up and say, 'OK, not today, maybe tomorrow I'll get this other part or something.' — Liam Neeson
I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind… — Robert De Niro
At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can… — Al Pacino
America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their electoral peril. While… — Christine Pelosi
The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in… — David Rockefeller
I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible. — Salman Rushdie
I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those… — Carl Sandburg
I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept… — Shakira
My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench. — Wilbur Smith
I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels. — Nicholas Sparks
I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like. — Sting
These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected. — Edmund White
Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected. — Helen Fisher
Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event. — Carl Jung
I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities sometimes concern facets… — John Steinbeck
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school. — Craig Thompson
Every time the phone rang, my heart jumped. Was it Alexander? And when it wasn't him my heart would break into a million pieces. It… — Ellen Schreiber
When a writer receives praise or blame, when he arouses sympathy or is ridiculed, when he is loved or rejected, it is not on the… — Hermann Hesse
But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn… — Ayn Rand
The adult must seem to mislead the child, and the Master the dog. They misread the signs. Their ignorance and their wishes twist everything. You… — Sheldon Vanauken
I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown,… — Fernando Pessoa
He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels — Henri Michaux
Haven't you ever known someone rejected by a lover, who, consumed by rage and jealousy, never lets go? They look on from a distance, unseen… — Scott Westerfeld
Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general… — Charlotte Bronte

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